Cruises and boat tours

To see Québec in a whole new light, cruise along its main waterway—the St. Lawrence River, which stretches over 1,100 km from east to west across Québec—or along some of the province's most picturesque lakes and rivers.

For over 100 years, cruise ships—the “white boats,” as they were still known in the 1960s—travelled the St. Lawrence from the Great Lakes to Charlevoix and the Fjord du Saguenay. To make the trip from Toronto, travellers had to change boats before negotiating the famous Rapides de Lachine, upstream from Montréal.